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    Ladies focus on the power women gain through magic. Clarke's second novel, Piranesi, was published in September 2020, winning the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction...
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    Arch of the Sergii (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    September 2014.[permanent dead link] Giovanni Battista Piranesi (c. 1750). Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti...
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    Villa del Priorato di Malta (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    obelisks and stele constructed in 1765 to designs by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, one of the very few executed designs by this etcher of Roman views who...
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    Santa Maria del Priorato Church (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    renovated between 1764-66 according to the designs of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. It is his only architectural work. According to a 2019 account, he "consolidated...
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    Theatre of Pompey (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    first individuals to draw the ruins of the theatre was Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who made two notable etchings depicting the theatre in the middle of the...
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    Burghley House (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    chimney-piece after the design of Venetian printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi was also added during his tenure. The so-called "Hell Staircase" and its...
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    Temple of Asclepius, Rome (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    University of California Press. p. 8. ISBN 0520204832. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Le antichità Romane. Roma, 1784. Volume 4. Plates XIV-XV. Livy. Ab Urbe...
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    The Colosseum in a 1757 engraving by Giovanni Battista Piranesi...
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    Capitoline Hill (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    hall, after having been converted into a residence by Giovanni Battista Piranesi for the Senator Abbondio Rezzonico in the 18th century. Its double ramp...
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    Basilica of Maxentius (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    horizontal forces exerted on the outer arches. The artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) drew many etchings of the basilica. The building became an...
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    Staten Island Museum (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    Island Museum's permanent collection include prints by Rembrandt, Goya, Piranesi and Audubon, paintings by Cropsey, Moran, Alma-Tadema, Giovanni di Paolo...
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    Arch of Titus (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    by Giovanni Paolo Panini 1744 by Canaletto 1748-74 by Giovanni Battista Piranesi 1839 by Constantin Hansen Arch of Constantine – Ancient Roman triumphal...
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    hall, after having been converted into a residence by Giovanni Battista Piranesi for the Senator Abbondio Rezzonico in the 18th century. Its double ramp...
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    Quirinal Hill (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    Constantine, were re-erected in 1588. In a view etched by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the vast open space is unpaved. The Quirinal Palace was the residence...
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    Prato della Valle (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    fully completed, is represented in a famous copper engraving by Francesco Piranesi from 1785. It seems that Memmo commissioned this and other representations...
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    influenced by others – such as Giovanni Battista Nolli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Johann Joachim Winckelmann – to house Albani's collection of antiquities...
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    Palazzo Mancini Palazzo Mancini, Rome. Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1752. General information Location Rome, Italy...
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    Greek temples created huge interest throughout Europe. Giovanni Battista Piranesi visited to make a book of highly atmospheric but also accurate etchings...
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    Main doors of the Roman Pantheon, engraving by Francesco Piranesi, 1780...
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    The piazza di Spagna in an 18th-century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, seen from south. The street on the left is Via del Babuino, leading to Piazza...
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    Pinturicchio. It houses a large series of engravings by Giovan Battista Piranesi. The museum is in the St. Pius V Palace, built in the 17th–18th centuries...
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    Hera from Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, 1891. Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778 Lawrence, 148 Lawrence, 149 Lawrence, 149 Lawrence, 148-149 Lawrence...
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    Callcott, Henry Fuseli, William Hamilton and 15 drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, many of which are framed and displayed in the museum. There are over 30...
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    Machado de Castro National Museum (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    (2004–2012), which included the addition of a new building, was awarded the Piranesi/Prix de Rome Prize 2014. The museum is housed in the former Bishop's Palace...
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    his inspiration from Roman and Ancient Greek architecture (specifically Piranesi's etching of the remnants of the so-called Temple of Minerva Medica in Rome)...
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    Pyramid of Cestius by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (18th century)...
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    of imminent collapse, erected scaffolding for effecting repairs. Both Piranesi and the young English architect George Dance the Younger were able to climb...
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    Temple of Jupiter Tonans (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    an engraving by the eighteenth-century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Excavations begun in 1811–1812 by the papal architect Giuseppe Camporese [it]...
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    Roman Forum (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    visual artists for centuries. Especially notable is Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who created a set of 135 etchings, the Vedute di Roma ("Views of Rome")...
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    Appian Way (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    The Appian Way as it appeared in Piranesi's imagination (1756)...
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